The Browns Board Lives: New Owner, New System, Same Data
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@Ibleedbrown said:
i don’t think that’s fair. The poliboard predates Stan’s passing and Steve’s taking over, and its purpose all along was to keep the politics off the main board.
By and large it accomplished that. I don’t know if anyone could have predicted how gross and weird it would turn in to, but clearly there’s an outlet for it. It was statistically the second most popular forum here. I bear my part of the shame in that.
But it was also a place we could discuss politics on the internet with entities we were reasonably certain were actual people, and l think that’s a diminishing thing on the internet these days.
Open to bringing it back, but this board kinda died over the last few years and that board especially felt completely unmoderated and unregulated.
Not that we should censor opinions or suppress opposing views (I don't believe in that, of course) - but we also cant be linking facebook as a source of information or having name and shame for people's personal social media accounts.
Generally political boards are tough...and for the re-launch I felt it best not to try to solve the age old problem that nobody else has been able to solve. (I mean if you look at 4chan, twitter, facebook, bluesky) - every political board turns into an echo chamber.
I wish the world wasn't like that and people could be reasonable and discuss things rationally, but alas that is especially not the case with politics for whateverreasons.@bbedward said:
Open to bringing it back, but this board kinda died over the last few years and that board especially felt completely unmoderated and unregulated.
Not that we should censor opinions or suppress opposing views (I don't believe in that, of course) - but we also cant be linking facebook as a source of information or having name and shame for people's personal social media accounts.
Generally political boards are tough...and for the re-launch I felt it best not to try to solve the age old problem that nobody else has been able to solve. (I mean if you look at 4chan, twitter, facebook, bluesky) - every political board turns into an echo chamber.
I wish the world wasn't like that and people could be reasonable and discuss things rationally, but alas that is especially not the case with politics for whateverreasons.
I don’t think you can moderate it any better than it has been moderated given the current state of political news coverage these days. Steve and Woody kept the bots and the spam and the porn out, but the end result is what it is.
it’s real people with tinfoil hats.
I could moderate it. Woody has shown he can too. Axe is a good candidate if he’s willing to do it. But l don’t think any of us will do anything more that keep the bots and the spam and the porn out, so you’ll be stuck with the same bullshit. -
The amount of emoticons l can use for reactions is overwhelming. If l use an inappropriate emoticon, please know that l’m just trying to use them all at least once.
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@Ibleedbrown I am Zombo!
Z@Zombo-Dawg said:
@Ibleedbrown I am Zombo!
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Thank you for keeping the board alive
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I had to sign on another account since my old email I forgotten but my new account as my username was JPPT1974 and I have had the current email for nearly five years. But glad it is now working here. Had a pretty rough time on it. Thank you nonetheless.
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How do I go back to see prior posts on this thread (or any thread)?
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Never mind-I see the little movable rectangle just to the right of last post can take me back in the thread.
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https://brownsboard.com/user/gumby73
@bbedward Amazing start Bbed.. This updated forum looks great ! Many thanks, not missing a single former post
I've been locked out for months needing a @ added to my email address.. That's not possible to fix when you can't log-in
btw... Fuck The Steelers ! ! It's good to be back on that Game Night !
Thank you from many Old BB Dawgs !
Browns & Buffett: Got to go fishin, Down to rock bottom again, with just a few Friends -
Never mind-I see the little movable rectangle just to the right of last post can take me back in the thread.
@TexasAg1969 said:
Never mind-I see the little movable rectangle just to the right of last post can take me back in the thread.
You can also enable pagination if you dont like infinite scroll
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@MLD-Woody said:
Great job, sir. Good riddance to the poli board. Happy to mod again if needed
Made you a mod@nickers said:
Nice job on the reboot... However I will state... It was rather weak not to include the poliboard. You yourself didn't have to engage in it... At any rate... the site looks nice.. Go Browns...
I like the idea of it, and i'm not adverse to differing opinions and discussions. But regardless now I may be held responsible for what people post here (even though the ToS says I'm not, you never know how the law might interpret things). Leaving it archived is even questionable for me. It seems completely unmoderated to me at this point, there's doxxing and hateful remarks and various things that I'm not comfortable hosting.
Maybe if the moderator group proves they can adequately moderate the rest of the board I'd be open to re-opening a political board, but I can't allow anything that's very gray or 4chan-like that might get my servers flagged for anything malicious.@bbedward said:
Made you a mod
I like the idea of it, and i'm not adverse to differing opinions and discussions. But regardless now I may be held responsible for what people post here (even though the ToS says I'm not, you never know how the law might interpret things). Leaving it archived is even questionable for me. It seems completely unmoderated to me at this point, there's doxxing and hateful remarks and various things that I'm not comfortable hosting.
Maybe if the moderator group proves they can adequately moderate the rest of the board I'd be open to re-opening a political board, but I can't allow anything that's very gray or 4chan-like that might get my servers flagged for anything malicious.
Stan/Atenears hated the poli board because of all the pissing, moaning and tattling. Steve had red hair on his dome when he took over the message boad from Stan. When that turned into more gray hair than Willie Nelson he realized it was time to pass the torch. -
https://brownsboard.com/user/gumby73
@bbedward Amazing start Bbed.. This updated forum looks great ! Many thanks, not missing a single former post
I've been locked out for months needing a @ added to my email address.. That's not possible to fix when you can't log-in
btw... Fuck The Steelers ! ! It's good to be back on that Game Night !
Thank you from many Old BB Dawgs !
@gumby73 said:
https://brownsboard.com/user/gumby73
@bbedward Amazing start Bbed.. This updated forum looks great ! Many thanks, not missing a single former post
I've been locked out for months needing a @ added to my email address.. That's not possible to fix when you can't log-in
btw... Fuck The Steelers ! ! It's good to be back on that Game Night !
Thank you from many Old BB Dawgs !
Thatta boy Gumbs - glad you made it back! -
There's a new "News & Politics" board under a new stricter format, which was kinda my vision just needed time to implement it.
https://brownsboard.com/category/35/news-politics
Basically each post needs to be an article, discussion underneath. No open posting or social media sources. (And obviously fake sources should be removed, like realnews17notfake . biz )
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